copytaker

/ ˈkɒpɪˌteɪkə /

noun

1. (esp in a newspaper office) a person employed to type reports as journalists dictate them over the telephone

Example Sentences

She left school at 15 to work as a typist and copytaker on the Yorkshire Evening Post, and got her first stories into the newspaper’s pages by surreptitiously slipping them into the sub-editor’s tray.

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Five days in the infernal bowl of the Waca and I knew more of hell than Dante's copytaker; my family weren't due to arrive until the next drubbing at the MCG, so I was all alone with my misery.

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